Volume 12 : Issue 12.2 (2025)

Steam Awareness among University Students: An Investigation

Education is such type of advanced machine from which if anyone uses this machine consequences change in behaviour and gives adaptation and adjustment skills such that a person can become a responsible, capable, and independent individual to make competent in making their own decision in their life. As taking an example of a vehicle in which different parts like differential, gearbox, brake, engine etc. as whole make the vehicle in a similar fashion any subject is not only specific it is also integrated as whole.in a similar fashion concept of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics) it was previously in the form of STEM(science, technology, engineering, mathematics) as a paradigm change that occurred with the move from STEM to STEAM in order to achieve integrative and lifelong holistic education from subject and discipline. As functioning of STEM and STEAM has not much difference only the addition of ARTS in STEM forms STEAM addition of arts fosters Creativity, risk-taking habits, collaborative, and experiential learning to fulfil the all-round and holistic development which NEP-2020 talks all about. and according to NCF-2005 teaching subjects or content knowledge as specific is not effective as it is seen in integrated fashion to make more conceptual clarity. STEAM develops different skills to sustain 21st-century skills like Adaptability skills, communication skills, social skills, problem-solving skills, Creativity, self-control, Scientific thinking, cooperation skills and imagination and curiosity power among individuals. The objective of the research was to compare mean scores of Awareness towards STEAM of University students of science and Social Science University students. The present study was a cross-sectional survey in nature. All the University students present in session 2023-24 of Gujarat sample size of the present research was 141 of which 71 from science and 70 from social science students of University in Gujarat. it was seen that there is no difference in the awareness about STEAM among University students.

STEAM, Holistic development, Self-control, Scientific thinking

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